NI4OS-Europe landscaping survey results

The dataset includes 575 complete responses collected in the NI4OS-Europe landscaping survey between 21 October and 10 December 2019. The survey was run in the following countries: Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.
The activity was coordinated in collaboration with the four regional EOSC projects (EOSC- Pillar, EOSC-Nordic, EOSC Synergy, ExPaNDS) and its results were used by the EOSC Landscape Working Group.

The starting point for developing the survey was the questionnaire designed by the EOSC-Pillar project team, but Policy Mapping Survey by Regional Cooperation Council, EUA’s Open Access Survey and the FAIRsFAIR Policy and Practice Survey 2019 were also used. Some of the questions that were included had to be rephrased to adapt to regional stakeholders’ needs.  NI4OS-Europe work package leaders suggested additional questions, some of which were included in the survey. The file NI4OS-Europe_survey_questions.ods contains all the questions from the survey mapped according to topics. For each question it is indicated whether it was adopted from an existing survey or was suggested by a NI4OS work package.

Five questionnaires were defined – one for each stakeholder group identified by the NI4OS-Europe partners based on their role in the research ecosystem: FUND (research funders and policymakers), CREATE (universities, research institutes, etc.), SUPPORT (libraries, repositories, research infrastructures, etc.), CONSUME (organizations using research results in their work, e.g. SMEs) and FACILITATE (individuals and organizations involved in promoting the principles of open science). There were 82 questions in all questionnaires.

LimeSurvey was used to collect responses. As some questions appeared across multiple surveys, the five questionnaires were merged into one survey with forking paths: after answering the preliminary questions, a respondent was redirected to the appropriate questionnaire.

The survey collected 575 complete responses from 482 distinct entities in 15 countries. The incomplete responses have been removed from the dataset.

****Dataset contents****
NI4OS-Europe_survey-results_2019_completed.ods, data file, survey responses, OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods) file generated in Apache OpenOffice Calc
NI4OS-Europe_survey_questions.ods, survey questions, OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods) file generated in Apache OpenOffice Calc
NI4OS-Europe_survey-questions.pdf, survey questions exported as a PDF file from LimeSurvey
NI4OS-Europe_survey-README.txt
The dataset was used to create visualizations on the NI4OS website: https://ni4os.eu/survey-results/
****Dataset license****
The dataset is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0